Annette Nierobisz, Dana Sawchuk, Dana Sawchuck

American Idle

Late-Career Job Loss in a Neoliberal Era

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781978835863
• ISBN-10: 1978835868
• Artikelnr.: 71936649

Autorenporträt

ANNETTE NIEROBISZ is a professor of sociology and the Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. This is her first book. DANA SAWCHUK is a professor of sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada. She is the author of The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979–1996.  

Inhaltsangabe

1    “Broke, Unemployed, Downsized Again”
2    Hard Falls and Soft Landings
3    Generations at Work
4    In God We Trust
5    “Here’s Where I Am, Here’s Where I’ll Stay”
6    Silver Linings and Positive Thinking
7    Where Are They Now? And What Can We Do?
Appendix A    Studying Late Career Job Loss in the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”
Appendix B    Tables 1 and 2
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1 “Broke, Unemployed, Downsized Again” 1
2 Hard Falls and Soft Landings 13
3 Generations at Work 28
4 In God We Trust 46
5 “Here’s
Where I Am, Here’s
Where I’ll Stay” 64
6 Silver Linings and Positive Thinking 82
7 Where Are They Now? And What Can We Do? 98
Appendix A: Studying Late-Career
Job Loss
in the Land of 10,000 Lakes 117
Appendix B: Tables
127
Acknowledgments
133
Notes 137
Bibliography 165
Index 000